CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2] — Page 134

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sold nor worked without the consent of the Military Authorities, and if they should refuse, the Colonial Government would appear to have no remedy. Further in the event of a large portion of a Military Reserve being required for an important puolic improvement how is it to be released from the rights which have been given to the Military Authori- -ties should they be unwilling to give up their rights ? The rights given seem to be given in perpetuity unless the Military Authorities decide that they no longer require them, what does the Colonial Government get for this one sided agreement ? A nominal Crown Rent of £1 per acre.

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I am inclined to think that all the Military Authorities should be entitled to for the nominal rental they pay is the right to use the area of the Reserve for so long only as it has no greater annual value, and that as soon as any demand arises for the whole or any portion of it the Colonial Government should be at liberty to put the whole or any part of it up to auction in the usual way, if it should prove of importance to the Military Authorities to retain it for defence purposes they would have to bid for it and pay the market price and if successful at the auction would become lessees of the Colonial Government, if it should prove of no importance they would of course let it εO.

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The same principle should apply to land subject to "Clearance Rights*, the Military Authorities should either (a) release any portion of an area subject to such rights wich Colonial Government might wish to sell from those rights or (b) pay to the Colonial Government the difference between the price which the land would have fetched had it been sold free from clearance rights and what it actually fetched when sold subject thereto or (c) purchase the area outright at auction as indicated in my last paragraph, any other system means that the Colonial Government would be paying for the rights and not the Military Authorities which is not equitable; at least as regards lands not dealt with in Colonel Lewis' Lemorandum for the Military Contribution covers all obligations to the War Department. With regard to 'Reserves and 'Clearance Areas' dealt with by the Lemorandum' the case is somewhat different as the 'Memorandum forms,

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